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Convolutional architectures have proven extremely successful for vision tasks. Their hard inductive biases enable sample-efficient learning, but come at the cost of a potentially lower performance ceiling. Vision Transformers (ViTs) rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Hugo Touvron , Matthew Leavitt , Ari Morcos , Giulio Biroli , Levent Sagun

We propose global context vision transformer (GC ViT), a novel architecture that enhances parameter and compute utilization for computer vision. Our method leverages global context self-attention modules, joint with standard local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Greg Heinrich , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Transformer-based deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous language and vision tasks. While the self-attention mechanism, a core component of transformers, has proven capable of handling complex data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Laziz Abdullaev , Tan M. Nguyen

The Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates exceptional performance in various computer vision tasks. Attention is crucial for ViT to capture complex wide-ranging relationships among image patches, allowing the model to weigh the importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-22 Tomohiro Shiraishi , Daiki Miwa , Teruyuki Katsuoka , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Kouichi Taji , Ichiro Takeuchi

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of various self-supervised Vision Transformers (ViTs), focusing on their local representative power. Inspired by large language models, we examine the abilities of ViTs to perform various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ani Vanyan , Alvard Barseghyan , Hakob Tamazyan , Vahan Huroyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Martin Danelljan

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown remarkable performance and scalability across various computer vision tasks. To apply single-scale ViTs to image segmentation, existing methods adopt a convolutional adapter to generate multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Tommie Kerssies , Niccolò Cavagnero , Alexander Hermans , Narges Norouzi , Giuseppe Averta , Bastian Leibe , Gijs Dubbelman , Daan de Geus

Recently, the Transformer machine translation system has shown strong results by stacking attention layers on both the source and target-language sides. But the inference of this model is slow due to the heavy use of dot-product attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Tong Xiao , Yinqiao Li , Jingbo Zhu , Zhengtao Yu , Tongran Liu

Transformer-based networks applied to image patches have achieved cutting-edge performance in many vision tasks. However, lacking the built-in bias of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for local image statistics, they require large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Erik Gösche , Reza Eghbali , Florian Knoll , Andreas M Rauschecker

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in multi-image cross-modal retrieval, yet suffer from severe position bias, where predictions are dominated by input order rather than semantic relevance. Through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mingtao Xian , Yifeng Yang , Qinying Gu , Xinbing Wang , Nanyang Ye

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Query-based Vision Transformer segmentation models typically reconstruct dense spatial feature maps to predict masks, inheriting design patterns from convolutional architectures. We show that this explicit image-space reconstruction is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Calvin Galagain , Martyna Poreba , François Goulette

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in low-level vision tasks, such as image super-resolution. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

The ability to predict future visual observations conditioned on past observations and motor commands can enable embodied agents to plan solutions to a variety of tasks in complex environments. This work shows that we can create good video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Agrim Gupta , Stephen Tian , Yunzhi Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Li Fei-Fei

Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

Detecting AI-synthetic faces presents a critical challenge: it is hard to capture consistent structural relationships between facial regions across diverse generation techniques. Current methods, which focus on specific artifacts rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jiangling Zhang , Weijie Zhu , Jirui Huang , Yaxiong Chen

Vision transformers (ViTs) that model an image as a sequence of partitioned patches have shown notable performance in diverse vision tasks. Because partitioning patches eliminates the image structure, to reflect the order of patches, ViTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Sang Woo Kim

Time series forecasting is essential for many practical applications, with the adoption of transformer-based models on the rise due to their impressive performance in NLP and CV. Transformers' key feature, the attention mechanism,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 PeiSong Niu , Tian Zhou , Xue Wang , Liang Sun , Rong Jin

Image anomaly detection consists in detecting images or image portions that are visually different from the majority of the samples in a dataset. The task is of practical importance for various real-life applications like biomedical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Axel De Nardin , Pankaj Mishra , Gian Luca Foresti , Claudio Piciarelli

We propose Masked-Attention Transformers for Surgical Instrument Segmentation (MATIS), a two-stage, fully transformer-based method that leverages modern pixel-wise attention mechanisms for instrument segmentation. MATIS exploits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Nicolás Ayobi , Alejandra Pérez-Rondón , Santiago Rodríguez , Pablo Arbeláez